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Selena, just 23 when she died, was the most popular singer of Tejano music, a style of Latin pop that mixes pretty, Mariah Carey-like melodies with Lawrence Welk-style polka beats, often spiced with throbbing dance grooves and pumping accordions. Although she began working on her first English CD several years ago, she finished only a few songs before her death. The new album is a mix of new and old material. Several of the Spanish tracks--such as Bidi Bidi Bom Bom--are remixed versions of songs that were already hits in the Latin market. Some...
...just found out three more left. Now I'm all alone with Sally. Sally, Sally, Sally. She drives me absolutely bonkers. She talks louder than my deaf grandmother, smells like the MAC, and follows the "creative chaos" method of housekeeping. Not to mention that she listens to Mariah Carey. And you should meet her boyfriend. Yuck! Not only am I pissed that my "friends" have left me all alone with Sally for my senior year (what does that say about me?), but I can't decide whether I should try to go through the bureaucratic hassle of floating...
...homogeneity of the performers on Unplugged has also come in for criticism. With a few exceptions, such as Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige, the acts invited to come on the show have been white rock 'n' rollers. A few months ago, the New York City-based Black Rock Coalition held its own nontelevised "unplugged" in New York City to showcase minority talent ignored by MTV. Coletti defends his show's record and argues that rhythm-driven genres such as rap, R. and B. and reggae are often better suited for dance floors than for an acoustic showcase...
...name, for one thing, to NKOTB (not, obviously, a radical switcheroo) and hire a team of crack producers to give them a slicker, more grown-up sound. Thanks to studio pros like Teddy Riley % and Narada Michael Walden (who have separately produced records for Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey), Face the Music is the most polished album the Kids have ever made...
...spiritual music unfiltered. Much of the emotionalism of modern pop music -- the call-and-response involvement of the crowd, the sense that music can offer catharsis for both performer and audience -- is taken directly from the sacred-music traditions of African Americans. Listen to the secular love songs of Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston or Toni Braxton; close your eyes, ignore the lyrics, and you might as well be in a black Baptist church in Georgia. "When you listen to popular music, in America or worldwide, you can hear the African-American musical tradition," says Bernice Johnson Reagon, Wade...